August is... Escapes

A home away from home. Now and then, we all have one...hotel rooms, beach shacks, lake cottages, trusty tents, parents homes or a generous friend (or a friend of friend)'s sofa in a great location somewhere in the world.

We are talking about the places you go to for an escape. No matter how much you love your home, your corner of the world, visting someone else's now and then is good...AND inspirational - you nearly always come home with ideas and goodies to integrate into your own home from seeing how others live.

And that is what we are blogging this month across the AT sites...the escapes the we all make and the good ideas and inspirations that inevitably follow.

We'd love to hear from you this month - holiday time is also the time for taking a few more photos than usual, so we know you have snapped a few great ones in your time. Show us how your mom set the table on your first night home, the gorgeous furniture in the lobby of the swanky hotel bar you had a drink in, the cozy living room of the cottage you rented for a week, the shots you snuck in the amazing antique store off the beaten track...share the wealth and send them in to chicago (at) apartmenttherapy (dot) com.